Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ5890 GREAT WARLEY STREET, Great Warley
723-1/17/147 (West side)
20/02/76 Warley Elms

II

House. c1800, C20. Yellow brick with stuccoed front, hipped
slate roof. Rectangular plan with C20 ground-floor billiard
room in similar style added to rear of W end elevation.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Front, S elevation, 3 window range with
slight break forward of central bay, stucco rendered with
horizontal ashlar lining and clasping corner pilasters.
Central simple projecting Tuscan door porch with plain columns
and cornice. the door original with 2 leaves, each leaf has 4
panels with moulded surrounds, upper ones glazed. Flanking
shallow, stuccoed, semicircular arched recesses with windows,
simple string course link to arches and door porch. The
windows are original sashes with thin glazing bars and 3x4
panes and have wooden liners to the reveals. To W front of C20
addition, set back, ashlar lined stucco with parapet, 2
semicircular headed fully glazed French windows with glazing
bars, 4x4 panes. Rear, N elevation, 3 bays as front but with
parapet between clasping pilasters. Pebble dash rendered and
colourwashed, all windows are sashes with glazing bars, 3x4
panes. Ground floor window heads linked by continuous plain
string course. Stack projects slightly between E and central
bays. To W, C20 ground floor extension, elevation similar to
front. E end elevation, 2 window range with ground floor
semicircular arched stuccoed recesses with windows, as front,
clasping corner pilasters and parapet, all windows, as front,
sashes, 3x4 panes, on ground floor linked by continuing string
course. Walling principally yellow brick, first-floor windows
have finely set voussoirs. Area round S ground floor window
now pebble dash rendered. W elevation, pebble dash, clasping
pilasters and parapet, ground floor, to S, round headed recess
with window and string course as on E, to N, C20 single
storeyed extension with 3 symmetrical windows similar to those
on front elevation but as casement windows with lower panes
fixed. First floor has 2 upper windows, as front, one central
and one to S over one below. Central stack rises behind
parapet.
INTERIOR: essentially plain but flying stair in curved well,
top lit, has elegant mahogany handrail and decorative iron
balusters. Some rooms and top of stair on first floor have
ornamental plaster cornices. 3 original fireplaces with reeded
jambs and roundels. The presence of a parapet on all
elevations, except the S implies its original continuation
round the whole building. The horizontal ashlar lining
(without verticals) appears fresh and C20 and is exactly
similar on the C20 extension. The front elevation was most
probably originally stuccoed and lined and has been completely
re-done in the C20. The parapet was probably removed at the
same time.

Listing NGR: TQ5879990098

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584826

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